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All sides of Australian politics have sustained pressure on the United States to drop the charges against Julian Assange. While the Cheng Lei experience might provide an instructive lesson on how to negotiate with what is a political charge, this may have to wait until after the 2024 election.

To monitor education trends, RAND fields more than a dozen surveys per year to teachers, principals, and superintendents. Five charts highlight findings across different areas—staff turnover, teacher well-being, guns in schools, quality of instruction, and politics in schools—that say a lot about the state of American public education.

Former President Donald Trump was arraigned on Tuesday at a federal courthouse in Miami in relation to his alleged retention of classified documents and obstruction of justice. He pleaded not guilty, setting in motion a trial that could potentially run in tandem with his campaign for president. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, […]

Multiple existential threats – climate breakdown, disease, police violence, lawlessness, trauma, and systemic harms – characterise the pandemic years on western frontiers. This essay considers these and argues that disaster capitalism and authoritarian politics overpower scientific consensus and public opinion in ways that literally and figuratively cause a struggle to breathe.

В статье рассматривается структурная организация концептуальной метафоры "политика - это грязь". ; The article deals with the structural organization of the source domain of the conceptual metaphor POLITIKA - eto GRYAZ' (POLITICS is DIRT). The empirical base of the research is made up of contexts collected using the electronic database Integrum.ru.

Through our research on current and past environmental politics and policies throughout the United States, this group has determined that the best way for the U.S. to reduce its contribution to the causation of climate change is to implement a federal cap and trade program targeting carbon emissions.

A "Letter from Woodstock" editorial column about a recent act of vandalism to a monument at Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, what the incident says about the current state of American politics, and how the damage to the monument was repaired by a team of National Park Service specialists.

Citing examples from Antiquity like the trial against Jesus Christ and the politics of Caligula, the article analyses the dangers of legislation against "fake news ". Being a limitation to free speech and the first step to a totalitarian political system, the author is against such kind of legislative activism.

Der pakistanische Wissenschaftler Salman Rafi Sheikh hat in diesem Jahr ein Buch mit dem Titel veröffentlicht "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan 1947–1977". Belutschistan ist innerhalb und außerhalb Pakistans ein politisch heikles Thema, für das sich nicht viele Autor(inn)en finden lassen. Thomas Kugler deutet in seinem Überblick zu Pakistan an, warum. Wir haben die Autorin zwar nicht für einen eigenen Beitrag gewinnen können, aber sie bearbeitet das Thema Belutschistan in Form einer ausführlichen Buchrezeption.

Albornoz, D., Okune, A., & Chan, L. (2020). Can Open Scholarly Practices Redress Epistemic Injustice? In Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access. Martin Paul Eve & Jonathan Gray (eds) (pp. 65–79). MIT Press. https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4933/chapter/625156/Can-Open-Scholarly-Practices-Redress-Epistemic

Responding to Turner and Freeman's introductory essays on the place of faith in Australian politics, the chapter argues that most of those active in the political sphere no longer understand the hold religion has on a large section of the electorate. Hence the concerns of religious voters are dismissed without understanding.

PUBLISHED ; Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonorable and unmanly, poison was often associated with women as the "weaker" sex, with discriminated minorities such as Jews, and with Machiavellian politics from continental Europe.

Claves de la justicia desde América Latina - Mayra A. Scaramutti
Power and Principle: The Politics of International Criminal Courts - Tomás Willemoës
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State - Verónica Florencia Campos
Diplomacia Contemporánea. Teoría y práctica para el ejercicio profesional - Lucía Hipatía Parodi

The contributions to the Special Issue on Contested Knowledges: Water Conflicts on Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development have looked at the politics of contested knowledge as manifested in the conceptualization, design, development, implementation and governance of large dams and mega-hydraulic infrastructure projects in various parts of the world [.]

This article examines post-2001 state-building in Afghanistan. In so doing, it explores how interactions among aid, politics, and state capacity shaped the characteristics of the state by looking at the existing conditions, sources of state income, the development planning process, aid coordination and alignment, and interventions in building state capacity.